Life After Thirty | Death, Change and Time: Bruce Cockburn
By Interview Issue 100
There was a kind of availability I had to learn in order to create a song like that. A capacity for a kind of ecstatic contact.
Read MoreLevity and Gravity: The Sculpture of David Robinson
By Essay Issue 88
Sculpture is not made to function, but to make us function —Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy (1920–2006), __French figurative sculptor TEN YEARS HAD passed since I last saw David Robinson, the Vancouver-based Canadian sculptor. The occasion then was a studio visit to select three works for my exhibition A Broken Beauty: Figuration, Narrative, and Transcendence in North…
Read MoreThe Subject of Longing
By Essay Issue 82
So many things to see in this old world But all I can see is you. —“Together Alone,” 1970 The following is excerpted from Bruce Cockburn’s memoir, Rumours of Glory, forthcoming this November from HarperOne. IN LATE 1966 I WAS INTRODUCED to two people, in very different circumstances, who would have a profound effect…
Read MoreA Conversation with Bruce Cockburn
By Interview Issue 84
Canadian singer/songwriter and human rights activist Bruce Cockburn has released twenty-eight albums over the course of a career that now spans more than four decades. His early music was contemplative, broadly spiritual, and grounded in nature, with a folk sensibility, and though he converted to Christianity in 1974, he never fit the Christian music industry…
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